By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — On April 29, around 45 people squeezed into the miscellaneous workers' union hall and decided to form a new group, the Coalition Against the Mining and Export of Uranium (CAMEU). The meeting was attended by a range of
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By Leslie Williams
CANBERRA — Community and Public Sector Union members around the country met last week to vote on an initial union response to the federal government's attacks. Public sector workers are losing jobs, suffering budget cuts and
JAKARTA — Four hundred students demonstrated at the national parliament here on May 2 in protest against the murder of 24 students by the military in Makassar, Sulawesi. On April 22, about 500 students rallied in Makassar for the lowering of public
By Norm Dixon
According to a report in the Port Moresby Post-Courier, Martin Miriori, the representative of the Bougainville Interim Government based in the Solomon Islands, has been forced to fly to the Netherlands, where he has been granted
By Nikki Ulasowski
Wollongong — More than 200 members of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU) and students from Wollongong University met last week to discuss industrial action and the continuing campaign for a 15% pay rise.
Budiman Sujatmiko, newly elected chair of the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by Graham Mitchell and Karen Fleming in central Java on April 16.
Question: Why is this congress being held?
This congress
By Viviana Sacchero
MELBOURNE — Rusden is an intimate campus of Deakin University on which a mere 2000 students reside. Last month its students came close to being losers in the federal government's agenda of education cuts. On April 22, at a
His fine wit
Give or take a few months, it is the 130th anniversary of the death of Thomas Love Peacock. B'gad! you exclaim, has he been gone from us for that long a time?
Of course there's a chance, I grant, that among you there could be some
Trammit! — A time tramalogue for radio. Why does Melbourne still have trams? Why did Sydney — "the second largest network in the British Empire" — do away with trams in the 1950s? And why are cities like Los Angeles and Sydney discussing
By Annette Wade
MELBOURNE — Since the federal election, the Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development has been totally abolished. Public housing and the Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP) have been moved to the Department of
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"If somebody wants to risk burning this country to ashes, let them arrest me." — South African Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi in response to evidence before the murder trial of former defence
By Anthony Benbow and Virginia Brown
PERTH — The scarlet-coloured leaflet advertised the Fremantle branch of the Australian Labor Party meeting as "Re-visioning Labor". It was to assess the federal election result and discuss where to go to next.
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